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FIFA Ranking Scheme

  • 12-12-2002 4:44pm
    #1
    xlex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭


    The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking includes the national A-teams of all FIFA member associations who play international matches. Not included in the calculation are matches played by junior teams or other representative national sides (such as the women's national team).

    Taken into consideration for the ranking are all international-A match results over a time span of the last eight years:


    World Cup finals matches
    World Cup preliminary matches
    Continental championship final matches
    Continental championship preliminary matches
    FIFA Confederations Cup matches
    Friendly matches

    The ranking list is produced by a computer program which assigns a team points for every match, according to clearly defined criteria. The factors taken into consideration are:


    Winning, drawing and losing
    Number of goals
    Home or away match
    Importance of the match (multiplication factor)
    Strenght of the opponent
    Regional strength (multiplication factor)


    FIFA World Ranking - Overview of Basic Principals and Method of Calculation


Comments

  • #2
    Pigman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭Pigman


    The Elephant Ranking system has been around longer, is simpler to calculate and follow and is more accurate than FIFA's own system.


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